Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
LRTTERs FROM THE CAPITOL.
ST. PAUL.. MIMI, March ., 1887.

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ssed an ordinance granting liquor licenses
for two years and q half at the rate Of 500,
lper year pay able 500, each six months in
advance. The Legislature had failed to pass;
Incense law audit was argued that If such
Mn ordinance was passed prior to the enact-
ynento such a law, it would stand the COM
test Of the courts. Tho action of the City
Council made q good deal of feeling and one
9, the bill which had already passed the Senate
that the temperance men did not
have strength enough to
even doubtful Whether it would have gone
through to-day but for the action OF the
sConncil last night. That action enabled the
temperance men to bring some of their.
wavering followers into line and passed the
the day. in the Senate Senator Daniels,
who leads the temperance forces, got per-
mission to suspend the rules to introduce g
Vocal bill.'' The bin was read the first aud
second time and placed on the calendar for
charter of St. Paul and entirely nullihes,
the action of the st. Paul Council and ex-
picitly prohibits the issuing of any license
by the city except in accordance. with the
high license act. The temper
wrought up by, the action of the council of
st. Paul md claimed that it was entirelvS
illegal The Liquor interests were jubi-S
liant and still apparently not feeling entirely
certain that something might not turn up.
to upset the ordinance. It has placed the
matter in such shape that the courts will
probably have to decide the mooted point.
At all events it secured the passage of the
bill enforcing high license which. might
have failed but for the passage Of the ordin-
1,a a ron low hoo rpov
den all day to-day. Something over one
hundred bills were lifted out OF general
orders by unanimous motion and placed on
the calendar for third reading and
passage. Efforts were made to bring out a
good many more but wherever q bill was
objected to it required q suspension OF the
rules which was Impossible to secure. The
attendance in the lobby was large and
noisy. Members were flying hither and
thither about the room securing votes for
watching to secure the constitutional num-
Der of votes required to pass a bill though
there were ninety to one hundred members
on the floor all the time. The
had bill to look after, was obliged to go
about among his friends and urge them to
vote. often times hunting up alb
sontees in the cloak rooms aud corridors
to bring them In to cast their vote and save
the bill. Whom the clerks tally showed
enough affirmative votes to secure the bill
no further effort would be made in that di-
rection, but all this made confusion and
the speaker at times almost lost his head in
the whirl and became quite personal in his
to exclude the lobby from the floor but the
Sergeant at Arms found it was asslarger
contract than he could well carry out and
the lobby remained !; The House passed two
quite important bills aside from the tehi-
perance bill One was. known as the
q. oil nh ich
erably amended and then put through.
This bill does not affect the
sessions. The House now refuse to concur
with the Senate and the matter went to a
conference committee to-day. If they
should not agree the whole matter will fail
and the Legislative sessions remain as at
present, sixty days biennial One day more
remains in which the House can pass bills
and when they closed their session at a lit
tie after O'Clock tonight there we're some
IT there was the utmost good order, no de
bate and the rapid calling of the rollcall, it
would be big task to get one hundred of
these bills through: but with tho disorder
incident to the last days Of the session
all quarters. the inevitable debate
country very much but in cities Of FIVE
thousand Inhabitants it provides for opening
the polls at a. m. and keeping them open
until p N. and requires an election dis
rate ballot boxes for each kind of ballot is
sued. If the Senate concurs the bill will
probably become a law, but if it should not
it is likely to fail in the general mass that
will go to the waste basket tomorrow night.
The House passed a reapportionment bill:
Some time ago the House passed bill
for biennial sessions Of ninety days and also
for annual sessions of sixty days leaving q
vote of the people to decide which
should be adopted. The Senate refused to
r,o1e Int fI,ah in1
which will spring up at intervals occupy
ing from five minutes to an hour, the bulk
OF all the bills on the clerks desk will go to
the wall, The Senate is up with its work
and the bad condition Of affairs in the
House will cause the loss Of many bills that
have already passed the Senate. A House
bill that passes to-day stands better
chance of becoming a law, as it only has
the Senate to go through, than Senate
bill which passed the House two weeks
House o-day. What is known as the Mer-
I ril text book bill passed the Senate to day
by 81 to 3. It. will have q hard road to
travel ID the House and as the House
once refused to pass it, it is
hardly likely to go through with the CON
dition of affairs as they are at present.
There was an effort made during the ses
sion of the House this afternoon to take
such action as to force call for an extra
session from the Governor. Mr.. Gregory OF
OtulWdCcI uOSo0 W duJOuIu uutll EIlA1y
noon. This being out of order, he moved to
take a recess until ten minutes to twelve
Thursday night, which would cover the
period when bills could be passed. He ar.
gued that the House was accomplishing
nothing and might as well kill everything
bytaking this recess. There was pretty
strong vote in favor of his resol1
ton but the chair declared il
lost and business was again resumed
The Governor is very emphatic in announ
cling that he will not call an extra session ga
the members who are figuring for that may
as well abandon it. The city of st. Paul
gave the Legislature a very handsome ban.
quet at the Ryan Hotel tonight. The House
remained in continuous session after dinner
until between eight and nine O'Clock and
the banquet did not Eegin until after ten
continuing until between two and three
Speeches were made by Governor MsGil
and his competitor in the late canvas, Mayor
Ames Of Minneapolis, Senator Buchanan Of
Sank Rapids, Representative Rogers of st
Paul and others. The whole affair wa.
E finely conceived and well carried out
III. PAUL, MINI, March 8, 1857.
Tho agony Is over 80 far a. the passage Of
bills is concerned. Under the constitution